The relevant NYTimes story
Someone who is fool enough to think that NASA is where sleeper cells would go, if these cells were even interested in going into our larger national government, doesn't deserve to be on a bench. This is just dumb. I'll spare you the normal protests of not preserving the rights we are fighting for. Its true, but anyone who is aware of US politics already knows it.
More importantly: THIS IS NASA. I don't fucking care if the brilliant engineer has MS or the ROCKET SCIENTIST has fucking syphilis. I care that we are using the best and brightest we can to further our intellectual and scientific research and our quest into space. And just so the DHS and CIA and NSA know, its the really smart folks who tend to experiment with drugs and/or be socially awkward. Background checks past "are they more likely than most other folks here to steal some jet fuel" and "is there wife a top level Chinese government official who would want to steal our technology" are unnecessary and counterproductive.
I bet you 500 of the 900 refusing to go through this are the folks who could be putting a colony on the moon and fixing the schematics for the space shuttle 2.0 that is coming out in a few years. They could be getting cosmic information about Jupiter and Saturn. We could more fully understand tides and comets and REALLY BIG SHIT. There is a giant cloud of swirling crazy on Jupiter that is bigger than our planet and we care who the scientist is boffing? Hell, I have a friend who is in a relationship with a guy who is contracted out to NASA. I love that her sex life is fully under government scrutiny now. Hilarious.
I love it when the government cuts off its nose to spite its face. More importantly, I hope Virgin Space has jobs waiting for at least half these guys. Because at this rate, by the time the US government has got a ship ready to colonize the moon, private industry will have set up condos. And Lord knows, I want literally cosmic technology in the hands of the guys only out to make a profit. Way to think long-term stupid US government.
Someone who is fool enough to think that NASA is where sleeper cells would go, if these cells were even interested in going into our larger national government, doesn't deserve to be on a bench. This is just dumb. I'll spare you the normal protests of not preserving the rights we are fighting for. Its true, but anyone who is aware of US politics already knows it.
More importantly: THIS IS NASA. I don't fucking care if the brilliant engineer has MS or the ROCKET SCIENTIST has fucking syphilis. I care that we are using the best and brightest we can to further our intellectual and scientific research and our quest into space. And just so the DHS and CIA and NSA know, its the really smart folks who tend to experiment with drugs and/or be socially awkward. Background checks past "are they more likely than most other folks here to steal some jet fuel" and "is there wife a top level Chinese government official who would want to steal our technology" are unnecessary and counterproductive.
I bet you 500 of the 900 refusing to go through this are the folks who could be putting a colony on the moon and fixing the schematics for the space shuttle 2.0 that is coming out in a few years. They could be getting cosmic information about Jupiter and Saturn. We could more fully understand tides and comets and REALLY BIG SHIT. There is a giant cloud of swirling crazy on Jupiter that is bigger than our planet and we care who the scientist is boffing? Hell, I have a friend who is in a relationship with a guy who is contracted out to NASA. I love that her sex life is fully under government scrutiny now. Hilarious.
I love it when the government cuts off its nose to spite its face. More importantly, I hope Virgin Space has jobs waiting for at least half these guys. Because at this rate, by the time the US government has got a ship ready to colonize the moon, private industry will have set up condos. And Lord knows, I want literally cosmic technology in the hands of the guys only out to make a profit. Way to think long-term stupid US government.
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